'Escape Plan' goes awry

8:02 PM,
Oct. 16, 2013

Written by

Bill Goodykoontz
| Gannett

There is an old joke, something along the lines of, "What does a golfer do in his retirement? Sell insurance?"

Yeah, not so funny. Neither is this: What do aging action stars do in their retirement? Nothing. Because they never retire.

Only that's no joke. It's the truth. They're like boxers, down to the punch-drunk delivery. Thus we see a swollen Sylvester Stallone and a goateed Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Escape Plan," a movie that would have destroyed the box office around 1985 or so, but now just kind of chugs along as a curiosity, an amiable footnote to a couple of notable careers. It's just not ...